From: Lorenzo Colitti <lore...@google.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:19:25 +0900

> In this case, userspace knows that that app's connections are now
> unusable because it configured an iptables rule to block them. The
> kernel doesn't really know until it the time comes to send a packet,
> and maybe not even then.

Netfilter could perform signalling on skb->sk when it drops packets.

Your example is actually a argument _for_ doing this in the kernel.

:-)
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